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knvon New Features Coming in PostgreSQL 10

Any recommendations for scaling Postgresql's best practices? Really appreciate it.

knvon CouchDB 2.0

Why not start a Kickstarter for it?

knvon Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary

Does she/he really like street food better? If so all the best to him/her.

knvon Akka 2.2.0 released – distributed, concurrent applications on the JVM

Well I always thought that Scala itself is supposed to be the Erlang for jvm.

knvon Akka 2.2.0 released – distributed, concurrent applications on the JVM

Is Akka supposed to do what OTP is doing for Erlang?

knvon Roots – Better CSS

>CMS-style js libraries like Angular JS

CMS as in Content Management Framework?

knvon QLB (قلب) - Program in Arabic, display algorithms as calligraphy

And alcohol of course.

knvon CoffeeScript: The beautiful way to write JavaScript

I wonder if it's feasible to hack the javascript engines (v8, spidermonkey, ...) to support languages CoffeeScript? In case the answer is positive how come nobody's doing that?

knvon Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine

>they bought a good number of 50s era jazz cds to listen to in their bus.

It's may be because Rod Morgenstien (their drummer) is basically a Jazz Fusion musician.

knvon Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe

Time to send Missionaria Protectiva to spread the Panoplia Propheticus among them!

knvon Software downloads for Iran

Google Earth is still blocked in Iran.

knvon Arbor.js - HTML5 graph visualization library

Thanks for the pointer. Actually what I'm looking for is edit/add/remove functionality. Something suitable for making a web-based concept map.

knvon Arbor.js - HTML5 graph visualization library

Is there an HTML renderer example for this somewhere? I'm not sure how can I make a graph interactive with canvas?

knvon Replacing Mathematica with Python

What do you mean by "dynamic Lisp"?

knvon [dead]

>Combine the technological advancements of South Korea with a pool of 'cheap' North Korean labor and you've got the makings of an economic powerhouse.

China can do that because of in their political system the concept of Human Rights is basically none-existent. The ruling elite can treat some portion of their population as they please and they don't have to answer to anybody.

knvon Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks

... and never ever act upon that desire.

knvon Python Machine Learning Code Repository

You may try Programming Collective Intelligence if you haven't already (it's actually a O'Reilly book ;).

knvon Ask HN: What's your problem?

I need a web based wiki/concept-map hybrid.

knvon CouchDB Book Now Available from O'Reilly

Judging by online version calling this book a definitive guide is somehow misleading. There are still many crucial details about CouchDB that you cannot find in this book and you have to search for them in mailing lists/blogs/wikis. I think a title like Starting Couchdb with Couchapp fits better for this book.

knvon SourceForge Blocks Syria, Sudan, Iran, N. Korea & Cuba

What if those handful people had started/contributed to some open source project? Now they don't have access to their own code.

knvon Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

All three of them crashed my Chrome 4.0 tab.

knvon State Department Makes Statement on Google Operations in China

Haven't read it but given the context of your question should be interesting. Thanks for the pointer.

knvon A new approach to China

> When a "glastnost" comes to China

I think it's more accurate to say: If a "glastnost" comes to China. There's no rule of thumb that something like that is going to happen in every undemocratic country.

knvon Ex-Bell Labs AI researcher unveils first life-size AI-driven sex robot

I am a little perplexed here. His friend died and then as a way to restore his personality he created a female sex robot?!

knvon Mongodb vs couchdb

I'm all for map/reduce chaining.

knvon Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson

Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks

Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins

Business Stripped Bare, by Richard Branson

Programming Collective Intelligence, by Toby Segaran

Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

knvon Ask HN: How did you get started in hacking/programming?

>start with a specific goal/project in mind and find out what steps are required to get it done.

Best advice you can get especially when you start learning to program.

knvon Programming languages worth checking out

It's so good nothing useful has ever been written in it.

Care to elaborate a little bit?